My father was born in 1917, the year this film was shot. He is 102 years 3 months old, still lives on his own, cooks his own meals & writes letters on his computer. What incredible change he has witnessed! From gas lighting & cats whisker crystal radios to today’s hi-tech wonders. Modern technology amazes & often delights him. Alas, having been born during the Great War & having seen all the conflicts since, he despairs at man’s inability to progress on the human relations level. The more that things change, the more they stay the same, as the old saying goes!!
@@sunny5113 I do my best to but unfortunately he is very deaf and it’s not easy to talk. Fortunately he has kept diaries most of his life. I expect they will make interesting reading.
If your father lives in India, all of us here are worship him and seek his blessing. Very exciting to know him, please send your father photo if possible to my id mahasub@gmail.com
Very nostalgic - I flew on a Handly Page Hermes in 1958 from the UK to Singapore, my father serving in the British Army. We stopped at Rome, Brindisi, Ankara, Basra, Karachi, Delhi, Rangoon, and finally Singapore. we had 2 overnight stops in Rome and Karachi. We almost crashed into the Euphrates in Basra due to an undershot approach. We arrived in Singapore extremely tired but what a memorable journey. The real days of flying at around 12000 to 14000 feet seeing much of the land features beneath us. Nothing like a modern jet journey of today. Now precious memories to tell my grandchildren.
So within 14 years of the first flight of a few hundred feet by the Wright Brothers, they were flying from England on the far side of Europe to Calcutta on the far side of India? Mind blowing!
That's why western world is richest and most prosperous land on earth. To this day everyone is trying to compete west but nobody could even come close lol.
@@subhamsonalpanigrahi6045 china is not even close. Are you dumb ? Average salary of person in US is $60k a year where in China it's about $14k a year. Average person in usa lives a happy life since he can criticize goverment and not get washed out into the unknown. Average person can use any apps, software, jokes, literally and anything to their liking. In China they banned fuckn youtube, facebook, google . Not only CCP is threatening basic human rights of chinese but they are also blocking all the competition from which are coming from outside china. Do you think it's a good marketplace where your not even allowed to launch your app ? China is a clowns country. Just because you got big population doesn't mean your powerful or good enough lol. Most of China's invention are literal copy of western products anyways but since most western companies are not allowed in China, they can't even sue these chinese companies for copyright infringement laws lol. Do you still think china is close to usa ? AjajajsjJ. Anyone closer to usa is UK And germany. China is just joke.
The pilots of this historic flight were Sir Ross Smith and Brig General Amyas (Biffy) Borton. And the engineers were Shiers and Bennett, according to Michael Molkentin in his book Anzac & Aviator. Pity that the video doesn't carry more footage of these four !
By that stage of World War 1 an army officer was probably very happy to be in India instead of France. Excellent job with the filming & use of captions in the film.
400 yrs prior to this video the English had landed in Surat, the moghul emperor Jehangir was given tons of gifts upon arrival to trade spices in India, the king was blown away by their generosity, therefore gave them all access to the ports and free trade. That was British India Tea Company, later on it became the British Raj. The king and queen of England became the emperor and empress of India. They took all our precious lock stock and barrel and left us divided for ever. I despise to see this video even though it hurts very immensely to what the British had done to us for 400 yrs. It was total arrogance and anarchy that was shoved down every Indian of that era. Shame on all the bastard maharajas and nawabs who eventually became the puppets of England. Divide and rule was employed successfully at a great cost that can never be paid back to us. I just came back on this thread after 4yrs I posted about the Angrez Maa Ke Laode. I am surprised how many of the present Indian generation are still in favor of the British . Man, I would love to take you fellow's on a head to head debate in person and hang you guy's the next sunrise. Even though my name is infamous I am still a 100 percent Hindustani, my roots are from the Telugu speaking Lingayat caste even though I speak Persian as well because of my maternal side. I despise anyone who thinks India has progressed to this day because of the English system we have adopted in every aspect. Arz hai, woh waqth gaya woh daur gaya jab do qaumon kaa naara thaa, vo loge gaye iss dharthii se jinkaa maqsad batwaara thaa.
An amazing airplane, Britain had the most advanced long-distance air service in the world at the time. The pilots damaged the wing on a tree after landing. This is presumably why everyone is looking up at the right side of the plane right after it comes to a stop. You can see the damage starting at 7:18. Have any of these survived?
unfortunately no complete example remains of Handley Page O type (V type came in 1918 which itself didn't survive). There are pieces of this fine plane in RAF Cosford museum. Only British strategic bomber from that era surviving to this day is Vickers Vimy on display in science museum London. It's the same plane that crossed Atlantic. There are couple of replicas of that plane too, one even flies to this day. But unfortunately, no Handley Page WW1 plane (O type and V type) survive today
When I see films like this it reminds me of what my Father saw throughout his lifetime as a pilot. From propellors to jets and the sound barrier. I even remember my own childhood after the war when my father got posting in the far east. The plane had propellors and the fight took almost a week. When I went back in 1976 it was on a Singapore Airways Jumbo 747 it tool less than a day.
Jon Snow: it stands to reason this was not during WWI, despite the caption. in answer to your question, no. if it had occurred during the war, often there are different rules for the rich, though.
I'd like to think that if I died suddenly, my RUclips channel would live on forever, giving me a type of immortality so a hundred years from now someone will say the same thing you did.
@@hardyboy1959 We also don't know tht after hundred what's new technology of next generation face how much updates will be made in RUclips or any new app it's bit exciting but fear able.
A magnificent rare film to be cherished forever to understand the situation, atmosphere, culture, fashion etc of the yesteryears of British Empire in India. Indeed, Old is Gold, always.
RAHMATHULLAH RAHMATHULLAH , I posed at every moment to study the people, the way they stood, the lady's clothes, the soldiers uniforms, the Indians among the British, to get the feel of the time
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri wrote - "A Constellation aircraft took off from Mumbai on June 8 & landed in London via Cairo & Geneva on June 10, 1948 with 35 passengers on board on the first ever. The vedio seems to be a film.
How is it that nobody seems to have noticed that the unfortunate pilot hit the tree on taxi-ing at 1.08. This must have spoiled the occasion for him considerably. The damage can be seen clearly later in the film.
The first recorded flight from England to India took place late in 1918 arriving early in January 1919 and it was flown in a HP V 1500. The footage shows what is clearly a HP 0/400. So it must be a different flight and for the look of it, early 20´s
Wow you're right! That plane is going nowhere! Looks like it almost ran into that crowd of people at that first mark as well, pilot must've been drunk or something
Wow. Very historic film. Thank you very much for posting and sharing. I wonder where in Calcutta did they land? Also is this where the present airport is located?
I very much doubt that this happened in 1917. The crowd and atmosphere is wrong; but more telling is the fact the aircraft (a Handley Page Type 0 bomber, almost certainly a 0/400) would have been simply too valuable to send off to Delhi for seemingly no reason during the war. One was based in Palestine, but why on earth would it be sent off for a jolly, over enemy territory? 1918 after the the defeat of the Ottoman Empire is possible; but any time between 1919 and 1921 (Frederic Thesiger's last year as Viceroy of India) is much more likely. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_Type_O
Those who witnessed the Indian mutiny of 1857 were 82 when this was filmed. Many who witnessed the civil war of America were also alive when this was filmed
The year was 1917, world war 1 was still being fought and aircrafts were deployed by allied and central powers on mass scale. so, flying from GB to India by an aircraft sounds like way beyond time for 1917 but still it was possible.
@@sankalp_singh maybe, just imagine how the people of india must of reacted when they saw this thing landing, i mean even cars were a rare site back than, just amazing footage
@@returnofthestrangers exactly, their excitement can be seen in the ending parts of the videos. Wright brothers flew their first aircraft in 1905 and just after a decade humanity managed to cross an entire ocean with it.
@@lightningman212xd6 India was never divided it has many traditions, cultures and belief system which made it a spiritual advance nation not power or profit oriented .. Unfortunately this was taken as a weakness.. But colonization is a crime against humanity which may be forgive but never forget..
Though given when you die, you are not 'resting', peacefully or otherwise - you are dead! Only the corrupt religious con-men push the idea of life after death, and only the fools believe it!
Unfortunately in Britain, the true history of British colonization is not taught, it is not taught the how poor Britain was, before invading India, and how rich India was than, and how much money Brits looted from there, British children are taught that it was industrial revolution which made Britain rich, it is so pathetic.
How long will you fool yourself? now knowing about something does not mean it never happened, watch this, and tell me had this been what said in this program wrong, would this Indian man have been spared? watch: ruclips.net/video/O-VK2sDZCQw/видео.html and now watch what you used to be and what we made you: ruclips.net/video/z9AVPt7geJw/видео.html unfortunaltely I dont have time now to search and let you know, which I would have, it I had time that Europe learnt how to bath from us, how to clean from us.
This must have utterly blown these peoples minds that someone had landed in India after just a few days or a week in the air. That one week earlier they'd been in England.
This should be that ,flight from England to Egypt,then flight from Egypt to Iran ,then flight from Iran to India. How can this little plane carried enough oil for one flight such a long line from England to India.
As I know the first Overseas flight had taken place in 1927 (the name of the plane was "spirit of Saint Louis").Then how has this plane come to Calcutta from England in 1917?
Remember first flight Orville & Wilber Wright 1911? World War I (WW1) had aerial spotting of guns behind enemy lines, aerial bombing, dog fights in the years 1914-18; the famous German Airman Boron von Richtofen highly decorated. This clip is of 1917.
The first non stop Trans Atlantic flight was by Alcock and Brown in 1919, the spirit of Saint Louis flight was the first successful non stop solo attempt.
Great film. Wondered why the upper wing was damaged later in the film?... the aircraft hits that tree after landing! Was it the S... or F... word in 1917?
yashwant singh: it appears you are correct. i'm sure anybody who knows about period dress could confirm, beyond my google search on first flight from london to india.
Can someone tell me why Indians are against the mughals so much when they happened centuries ago where as most Indians don't hate the British as much ...even though British only left 70 something years ago and what they did to the people of the Indian subcontinent was brutal?
The year seems to be wrong. According to the newspaper "The Hindu" the following is the timeline: Arrival at Karachi: Dec.11, 1918 Delhi: Dec.12, 1918 Allahabad: Dec.16, 1918 Calcutta: Dec.17, 1918 Arrival at Karachi: Dec.11, 1918 Departure from Calcutta: January 13, 1919 The flight had Major-General Salmond, commanding the Air Force in the Middle East, Brigadier-General A.E. Barton, commanding the Palestine Brigade of the Royal Air Force, Captain Ross Smith of the Australian Flying Corps, and two air mechanics on board.
Subharun banerjee 1 second ago Emperial Airways to India - A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.....first city in india to receive an aircraft.
It’s a small plane with limited capacity fuel tank and because of this limitation it is not possible that it was a direct flight from England to India. Could someone explain this phenomenon?
Seems to me more likely this was 1919 rather than 1917. Margaret Thesiger (4:15) looks right for someone of about eight which would fit with her date of birth in 1911. But more significantly the plane itself - a Handley Page o/400, I think - would have been unlikely to have made the long trip out to India in 1917 when these newly developed aircraft had a crucial role in the closing stages of WW1. These were the first planes able to drop bombs of over half a ton weight. Immediately after the war they were converted for civilian use carrying, for instance, delegates to the Versailles peace talks. Another thing is that welcoming dignitaries ("their excellencies"), while they are formally dressed, look so exceptionally relaxed. There's no sign of any security whatsoever and all those swords are clearly part of dress uniform rather than being carried as weapons. Also some of the people carrying the swords are Indians. While there were considerable tensions between the British and the Indians, and between the Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs before and afterwards, there are absolutely no signs of any tensions in this film.
These planes flew at 70 to 80 mph, and carried only enough fuel for around two hours flying. They would have to land and refuel around 20 times! But with the British Empire being so extensive then, that was entirely possible.
I can believe they were tired. In those days, it was thought that pilots had to be out in the open to understand the plane's orientation. It was around 1930 that enclosed cockpits were designed. That was about the time when it was recognized that the pilot needed to see the horizon at all times, and the attitude indicator instrument was also invented around that time.
@@mohammadsabah8619 hey before British India was under monarchy rule, indians even don't know what is democracy and secularism. Even there were no electricity and vehicles and no jobs, British made a the first progressive move and open India to the world.still now the Indian don't know how to build a smooth road, full of corruption.
Certainly the Wright Brothers were not the first to fly a plane. I came across a video in which an Indian woman flew a plane over the beach at Dadar Chowpatty or Girgaum/Juhu Chowpatty. But this was 5-8 years ago. I haven't come across that video again. Can anybody throw light on this!!??🙄🙏 25-12-2024
britain might have occupied India or looted India....but the fact is...India wouldn't have been a country as it is today...courtesy india....and even after independence there aren't many original great projects that our ppl have built..most of the canals for farming and most the bridges they have built are still in use today....ours wouldn't have lasted so long...our indian system is deep rooted in corruption...no matter what...i feel India would have been another Hong Kong if British still ruled us...In a way they are better than our corrupt political system!!!
You said it! Many of our legal procedures, laws, rules, norms, etc are still there which they gave us, are unchanged or little changed, and we still follow them.
Sorry but India was doing well way before the British came...we were rich and had functioning societies... the British built all those things for their convenience... we were just a means to an end for them... the current political system has learnt a lot of lessons from them (not good ones)... as for corruption well..That's something that happens pretty much every where.. but even then for a country that remains in relative peace ...I think we are doing good... I see India becoming a great country soon..
@@miss42310 I know what you're trying to say and fully agree to that. But some people have inherent slave mentality in their DNAs and its hard to rewire that with truth. Sadly all you can do is let them be.😉
It's amazing , I never knew that in 1917 the planes were used for travelling to India. Is there any one knows how long it used to take to get to India in this plane?
Approximately 7 days. As it had to land at short distances for refuelling and the speed of the plane was not more than 200 miles per hr. Actually this flight was an experiment and not a commercial flight.
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My father was born in 1917, the year this film was shot. He is 102 years 3 months old, still lives on his own, cooks his own meals & writes letters on his computer. What incredible change he has witnessed! From gas lighting & cats whisker crystal radios to today’s hi-tech wonders. Modern technology amazes & often delights him. Alas, having been born during the Great War & having seen all the conflicts since, he despairs at man’s inability to progress on the human relations level. The more that things change, the more they stay the same, as the old saying goes!!
You need to interview him and ask him many questions from past.
@@sunny5113 I do my best to but unfortunately he is very deaf and it’s not easy to talk. Fortunately he has kept diaries most of his life. I expect they will make interesting reading.
If your father lives in India, all of us here are worship him and seek his blessing. Very exciting to know him, please send your father photo if possible to my id mahasub@gmail.com
Waaaw.All my respects for him.
My born 1983 😉get my interview
Very nostalgic - I flew on a Handly Page Hermes in 1958 from the UK to Singapore, my father serving in the British Army. We stopped at Rome, Brindisi, Ankara, Basra, Karachi, Delhi, Rangoon, and finally Singapore. we had 2 overnight stops in Rome and Karachi. We almost crashed into the Euphrates in Basra due to an undershot approach. We arrived in Singapore extremely tired but what a memorable journey. The real days of flying at around 12000 to 14000 feet seeing much of the land features beneath us. Nothing like a modern jet journey of today. Now precious memories to tell my grandchildren.
You are very lucky to have such memories.Thanks to share.
Wow how old are you now...?
Wowww
That is one super experience right there
You have lived an extradentary life that is out of reach to the people today. Good for you.
So within 14 years of the first flight of a few hundred feet by the Wright Brothers, they were flying from England on the far side of Europe to Calcutta on the far side of India? Mind blowing!
Gradiator and 50 years later to moon
That's why western world is richest and most prosperous land on earth. To this day everyone is trying to compete west but nobody could even come close lol.
@@bendover-bz4bc now its all about US, Europe has nothing to offer and is already beaten by many countries in terms of technological progress.
@@bendover-bz4bc china be like lol
@@subhamsonalpanigrahi6045 china is not even close. Are you dumb ? Average salary of person in US is $60k a year where in China it's about $14k a year. Average person in usa lives a happy life since he can criticize goverment and not get washed out into the unknown. Average person can use any apps, software, jokes, literally and anything to their liking. In China they banned fuckn youtube, facebook, google . Not only CCP is threatening basic human rights of chinese but they are also blocking all the competition from which are coming from outside china. Do you think it's a good marketplace where your not even allowed to launch your app ? China is a clowns country. Just because you got big population doesn't mean your powerful or good enough lol. Most of China's invention are literal copy of western products anyways but since most western companies are not allowed in China, they can't even sue these chinese companies for copyright infringement laws lol. Do you still think china is close to usa ? AjajajsjJ. Anyone closer to usa is UK And germany. China is just joke.
Watching 102 yrs old history now......
It's a nice feeling indeed !!
104*
It's my precious opportunity, to have seen past, when I was not born on the Earth.
You were always there on earth in form of your ancestors
@@theyaduvanshiindian391 so true man
एक Indian परतंत्रता की मानसिकता के साथ!
May we were on earth that time ,but not as human🙄😂
@@LovepreetSingh-kj6bh scientifically speaking, no
The pilots of this historic flight were Sir Ross Smith and Brig General Amyas (Biffy) Borton. And the engineers were Shiers and Bennett, according to Michael Molkentin in his book Anzac & Aviator. Pity that the video doesn't carry more footage of these four !
This movie was shot in 1917 and IAM watching in 2018 all thanks to uploader and RUclips
Nitin Dangwal. It is incredible.
And yet is not on IMDB.So does it even excist?LOL
@user Cman haha lol
By that stage of World War 1 an army officer was probably very happy to be in India instead of France. Excellent job with the filming & use of captions in the film.
400 yrs prior to this video the English had landed in Surat, the moghul emperor Jehangir was given tons of gifts upon arrival to trade spices in India, the king was blown away by their generosity, therefore gave them all access to the ports and free trade. That was British India Tea Company, later on it became the British Raj. The king and queen of England became the emperor and empress of India. They took all our precious lock stock and barrel and left us divided for ever. I despise to see this video even though it hurts very immensely to what the British had done to us for 400 yrs. It was total arrogance and anarchy that was shoved down every Indian of that era. Shame on all the bastard maharajas and nawabs who eventually became the puppets of England. Divide and rule was employed successfully at a great cost that can never be paid back to us. I just came back on this thread after 4yrs I posted about the Angrez Maa Ke Laode. I am surprised how many of the present Indian generation are still in favor of the British . Man, I would love to take you fellow's on a head to head debate in person and hang you guy's the next sunrise. Even though my name is infamous I am still a 100 percent Hindustani, my roots are from the Telugu speaking Lingayat caste even though I speak Persian as well because of my maternal side. I despise anyone who thinks India has progressed to this day because of the English system we have adopted in every aspect. Arz hai, woh waqth gaya woh daur gaya jab do qaumon kaa naara thaa, vo loge gaye iss dharthii se jinkaa maqsad batwaara thaa.
We already had good education prior to their arrival.
East India company was the biggest scam on earth.
They (the British) did not do a fraction of the harm the Moguls and the Afghans did to India - not even a fraction. In fact they united India.
They were all son's of bitches, one worse than the other. They left us holding the bag in the end.
The Brits was and still is a ruthless lot . Nothing more than republicans wigs .
An amazing airplane, Britain had the most advanced long-distance air service in the world at the time. The pilots damaged the wing on a tree after landing. This is presumably why everyone is looking up at the right side of the plane right after it comes to a stop. You can see the damage starting at 7:18.
Have any of these survived?
unfortunately no complete example remains of Handley Page O type (V type came in 1918 which itself didn't survive). There are pieces of this fine plane in RAF Cosford museum.
Only British strategic bomber from that era surviving to this day is Vickers Vimy on display in science museum London. It's the same plane that crossed Atlantic. There are couple of replicas of that plane too, one even flies to this day.
But unfortunately, no Handley Page WW1 plane (O type and V type) survive today
When I see films like this it reminds me of what my Father saw throughout his lifetime as a pilot.
From propellors to jets and the sound barrier.
I even remember my own childhood after the war when my father got posting in the far east.
The plane had propellors and the fight took almost a week.
When I went back in 1976 it was on a Singapore Airways Jumbo 747 it tool less than a day.
Thanks to British, showing past memories.
Yes and they made the worst past for us.. Thanks
@@comradeleppi2000 The British left India over 70 years ago, time to forgive and move on.
@@avishayil3863 time to forgive???why??what about the money they looted???if someone steals almost all your money,youll forgive him after 30 years???
This is one amazing film in its clarity and good resolution you can see the facial expressions quite well to get an impression of the people.
This is during WWI. I wonder how they avoided being shot down by the Kaiser's defenses.
Dennis Doddridge:
it's called being rich.
Jon Snow:
it stands to reason this was not during WWI, despite the caption.
in answer to your question, no.
if it had occurred during the war, often there are different rules for the rich, though.
@@trents3515 If it had been in 1917 the german anti aircrfat guns etc wouldnt have been anywhere near India. what a stupid question,
Now no one of these people are left on earth ⛳
I'd like to think that if I died suddenly, my RUclips channel would live on forever, giving me a type of immortality so a hundred years from now someone will say the same thing you did.
@@hardyboy1959
We also don't know tht after hundred what's new technology of next generation face how much updates will be made in RUclips or any new app it's bit exciting but fear able.
Thanks to RUclips now we archieved inmortality! !
Yes. Watching such footage is so humbling experience.
Yes all dead now
I was checking for the sound 😅😂
A magnificent rare film to be cherished forever to understand the situation, atmosphere, culture, fashion etc of the yesteryears of British Empire in India. Indeed, Old is Gold, always.
RAHMATHULLAH RAHMATHULLAH , I posed at every moment to study the people, the way they stood, the lady's clothes, the soldiers uniforms, the Indians among the British, to get the feel of the time
The real fashion of those, ‘the sons and daughters of the land’ not shown here, my friend
@@claudiosaltara8847 me too
Well said Sir.
Amazing... It's 102 years old film
Ya
@taladuga picpwaspwat TRUE
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri wrote - "A Constellation aircraft took off from Mumbai on June 8 & landed in London via Cairo & Geneva on June 10, 1948 with 35 passengers on board on the first ever.
The vedio seems to be a film.
The plane in the film is not a Constellation. The plane in the film is much older, would've been in a museum by 1948.
How is it that nobody seems to have noticed that the unfortunate pilot hit the tree on taxi-ing at 1.08. This must have spoiled the occasion for him considerably. The damage can be seen clearly later in the film.
Unbelievable. Only 14 years after the first aircraft created by the Wright brothers this aircraft was built to travel across continents
It was nice watching a film nonstop 12 minutes & 18 seconds where everyone in the film has a brain & knows earth is a globe.
And there is no mad bgn
The film is sharp and clear. A look back over a century. The pith (plant based fiber) helmet was truly a fashion statement.
If you had a white pith helmet you were above the hoi poloi, the military types had a brownish pith. The ladies dressed well for the occasion.
The first recorded flight from England to India took place late in 1918 arriving early in January 1919 and it was flown in a HP V 1500. The footage shows what is clearly a HP 0/400. So it must be a different flight and for the look of it, early 20´s
अंग्रेज अभी भी वैशे के वैशे है पर दुनिया ने बहुत तरक्की कर ली।
Sab ne
After 100 years, AIRUS A380 lands in india
@@javedsultan4830 It's better than ten years before. Awareness required.
@@narasimhap5880
it is a reality.. no toilets in india
65% public ki gaand nangi in street..
Tolles Video. An der rechten Tragfläche ist doch eine ziemlich starke Beschädigung? Bird Strike?👆👆👆👆👆😃😃😃😃 Viele Grüsse aus Germany
@ 1:06 the plane clips the tree, probably damages the wing !!! You can see the damaged wing at 8:08
Wow you're right! That plane is going nowhere! Looks like it almost ran into that crowd of people at that first mark as well, pilot must've been drunk or something
That plane remained in India forever
Wow. Very historic film. Thank you very much for posting and sharing. I wonder where in Calcutta did they land? Also is this where the present airport is located?
Dum dum only i guess . The airfiled was grass as we see..
This does not look like Dum Dum. I believe it may be the race course.
Yeah this is race course
maybe red road
On the Calcutta Maidan(green fields). Still there today.
during the years 1900 to 1930 .....18000 Europeans used to live in Calcutta city ...90% of which was pure British.
Soft background music dena chahiye tha ....video aur bhi sajeev lagata
I very much doubt that this happened in 1917. The crowd and atmosphere is wrong; but more telling is the fact the aircraft (a Handley Page Type 0 bomber, almost certainly a 0/400) would have been simply too valuable to send off to Delhi for seemingly no reason during the war. One was based in Palestine, but why on earth would it be sent off for a jolly, over enemy territory? 1918 after the the defeat of the Ottoman Empire is possible; but any time between 1919 and 1921 (Frederic Thesiger's last year as Viceroy of India) is much more likely. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_Type_O
The 747 of the time with the most powerful engines. non-pressurised
Don't know why the pilots are so happy it looks like they damaged the wing tip when they taxied into a tree.
The only tree in sight and they managed to hit it. It's probably not their plane!
Those who witnessed the Indian mutiny of 1857 were 82 when this was filmed. Many who witnessed the civil war of America were also alive when this was filmed
2 mind boggling questions, how did they have enough fuel and how did the pilots know the way?
The year was 1917, world war 1 was still being fought and aircrafts were deployed by allied and central powers on mass scale.
so, flying from GB to India by an aircraft sounds like way beyond time for 1917 but still it was possible.
@@sankalp_singh maybe, just imagine how the people of india must of reacted when they saw this thing landing, i mean even cars were a rare site back than, just amazing footage
@@returnofthestrangers exactly, their excitement can be seen in the ending parts of the videos.
Wright brothers flew their first aircraft in 1905 and just after a decade humanity managed to cross an entire ocean with it.
@@sureshpandey9485 That's amazing my brother
@@returnofthestrangersActually train came 150 years before car
The right wingtip either narrowly missed or brushed with the tree 1:06
It did not miss! You can see the damage occurring as it happened.
I. Love the old days.
How can a country steal another country.. And still doing so Today . And remain unpunished.. This is the world we live in. 🌍😔
Sadly we were part to blame. Our nation wasn’t united. We were divided within our own country unfortunately. And the British took advantage of that
@@lightningman212xd6 India was never divided it has many traditions, cultures and belief system which made it a spiritual advance nation not power or profit oriented .. Unfortunately this was taken as a weakness.. But colonization is a crime against humanity which may be forgive but never forget..
@@ravisharmaruchaya7836 idk what you’re saying but it doesn’t sound right.....
@@lightningman212xd6 its ok but truth is neither right nor wrong.. Its jst like the light of the sun.. Dispersing darkness 🌞😜
@@ravisharmaruchaya7836 You've confused me even more......
Rip to all of u
Though given when you die, you are not 'resting', peacefully or otherwise - you are dead! Only the corrupt religious con-men push the idea of life after death, and only the fools believe it!
@@thetessellater9163 mind your shit better
hahahaha......
@@thetessellater9163 lol..how do you know???have you died before
Unfortunately in Britain, the true history of British colonization is not taught, it is not taught the how poor Britain was, before invading India, and how rich India was than, and how much money Brits looted from there, British children are taught that it was industrial revolution which made Britain rich, it is so pathetic.
How long will you fool yourself? now knowing about something does not mean it never happened, watch this, and tell me had this been what said in this program wrong, would this Indian man have been spared? watch: ruclips.net/video/O-VK2sDZCQw/видео.html and now watch what you used to be and what we made you: ruclips.net/video/z9AVPt7geJw/видео.html unfortunaltely I dont have time now to search and let you know, which I would have, it I had time that Europe learnt how to bath from us, how to clean from us.
@@Michael-yl4ch so the East India company was for fun.
You cannot deny that it is impressive how a tiny country was able to invade half the earth. Of course we know about divide and Rule etc.
Would you please tell How you found these confidential Records
I dont think these are confidential video
The military still used a sword.
Os militares ainda usavam espada.
Wonderful, I am watching this in 2020
This must have utterly blown these peoples minds that someone had landed in India after just a few days or a week in the air. That one week earlier they'd been in England.
This should be that ,flight from England to Egypt,then flight from Egypt to Iran ,then flight from Iran to India. How can this little plane carried enough oil for one flight such a long line from England to India.
As I know the first Overseas flight had taken place in 1927 (the name of the plane was "spirit of Saint Louis").Then how has this plane come to Calcutta from England in 1917?
That was a Trans-Atlantic flight.
this was not an overseas flight. they had many stops along the way from the UK.
Remember first flight Orville & Wilber Wright 1911? World War I (WW1) had aerial spotting of guns behind enemy lines, aerial bombing, dog fights in the years 1914-18; the famous German Airman Boron von Richtofen highly decorated. This clip is of 1917.
Vinit ranjan Jha that was transatlantic flight between US and Europe.
The first non stop Trans Atlantic flight was by Alcock and Brown in 1919, the spirit of Saint Louis flight was the first successful non stop solo attempt.
Do you have any video of 670 Squadron RAF - formed at #Fatehjang on 14 December 1944, disbanded 1 July 1946.
Great film. Wondered why the upper wing was damaged later in the film?... the aircraft hits that tree after landing!
Was it the S... or F... word in 1917?
Wow..Great filming of major n great event..I think that time there was no.commercial flights to.india..
i can't believe im seeing this rn.
And how many stopovers for refuelling and maintenance ??
probably many, since the technology wasn't developed enough for a nonstop flight from UK to India in 1917
It seems so many people had
the habit of SMOKING...
Awesome film..
I miss the Empire so much. It was the greatest time in human history!
Discription is wrong because first international flights in India 1925.did not come in 1917..
yashwant singh:
it appears you are correct.
i'm sure anybody who knows about period dress could confirm, beyond my google search on first flight from london to india.
Thanks to engineer of that time and hero pilots who made aviation to this point!!!!
To the point of damaging the planet, you mean.
Somtime i prefer a silent film With synchronized scores...
The pilots were out in the open air cockpit. Imagined how cold the pilots sustained that long flight.
Such a small airplane it can travel only a few kilometers from one round of fuel.
More than "a few kilometres" I think. Fuel range of up to two hundred miles (c. 320 kilometres) was possible in those days. Less with cargo.
Can someone tell me why Indians are against the mughals so much when they happened centuries ago where as most Indians don't hate the British as much ...even though British only left 70 something years ago and what they did to the people of the Indian subcontinent was brutal?
Bcoz Indians are being brainwashed by right wing extremists.
Because Britain Is Densly Layed Egg By Indians Nows. Chicken Also Been Hatched And Liked To Called Themselves British Indians And Settled There.
Time seems to have stood still in this remarkable film, a bygone era for us to see today.
British India, the best India. Today's locals should be proud of their ancestors' British nationality.
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Uk = urinated kondom
Ancient Bharat Best Bharat
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Shut up idiot
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And none erstwhile indian considered himself British
Their only identity was "Hindustani"
Wow.gr8 video.i watched in dismay...thank you for the upload.expecting more of this sort.
The year seems to be wrong. According to the newspaper "The Hindu" the following is the timeline:
Arrival at Karachi: Dec.11, 1918
Delhi: Dec.12, 1918
Allahabad: Dec.16, 1918
Calcutta: Dec.17, 1918
Arrival at Karachi: Dec.11, 1918
Departure from Calcutta: January 13, 1919
The flight had Major-General Salmond, commanding the Air Force in the Middle East, Brigadier-General A.E. Barton, commanding the Palestine Brigade of the Royal Air Force, Captain Ross Smith of the Australian Flying Corps, and two air mechanics on board.
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Emperial Airways to India - A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.....first city in india to receive an aircraft.
Look at the plane landed without run away and there was no ATC. It's just the beginning and today the air routes are congested like our roads.
It’s a small plane with limited capacity fuel tank and because of this limitation it is not possible that it was a direct flight from England to India.
Could someone explain this phenomenon?
they stopped at various places en route to refuel....that is the explanation for the "phenomenon..."
@@doctorshawzy6477 exactly
How Amazing it's..
Even My Grandpa Not Born At That Time, and today I have Seen It Here
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Seems to me more likely this was 1919 rather than 1917. Margaret Thesiger (4:15) looks right for someone of about eight which would fit with her date of birth in 1911. But more significantly the plane itself - a Handley Page o/400, I think - would have been unlikely to have made the long trip out to India in 1917 when these newly developed aircraft had a crucial role in the closing stages of WW1. These were the first planes able to drop bombs of over half a ton weight. Immediately after the war they were converted for civilian use carrying, for instance, delegates to the Versailles peace talks.
Another thing is that welcoming dignitaries ("their excellencies"), while they are formally dressed, look so exceptionally relaxed. There's no sign of any security whatsoever and all those swords are clearly part of dress uniform rather than being carried as weapons. Also some of the people carrying the swords are Indians. While there were considerable tensions between the British and the Indians, and between the Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs before and afterwards, there are absolutely no signs of any tensions in this film.
Witch Air Filed In Kolkata , Bridge Parard Ground Or Kolkata Reccorce ?
Aircrew seems verry happy considering they just clipped a tree. The wing tip looks pretty bad to me.
Wow...this opens with a trillion birds circling around the craft ....we will be shitting bricks if this happens today
Historic! watching after 101 years! Good that its free from bollywood loud music!!
I am in 1817 because I haven't even seen airplane in front of my eyes..let alone sitting in it
All the way from England! I find the voyage tiring in 2020. Takes nearly 10 hours in a luxury jet.
These planes flew at 70 to 80 mph, and carried only enough fuel for around two hours flying. They would have to land and refuel around 20 times!
But with the British Empire being so extensive then, that was entirely possible.
Rip all of these 😮😢
They made this long flight, just to run into a tree. LOL. Only the Brits.
Thanks for the sneer, but no doubt the pilot(s) were very tired and lost concentration on an landing strip not built fir such a large aircraft.
@@Peter-lm3ic - did you know them? They damaged their plane by hitting the only tree in sight - that is some lack of concentration!
I can believe they were tired. In those days, it was thought that pilots had to be out in the open to understand the plane's orientation. It was around 1930 that enclosed cockpits were designed. That was about the time when it was recognized that the pilot needed to see the horizon at all times, and the attitude indicator instrument was also invented around that time.
How long it took and how many stops. What an experience it must be.
Every one wearing hat ..what a synch for each of them...
as others have already pointed out, this video is probably from 1925 (not 1917). hence, this is also not during WWI.
Amazing video ❤
I am thinking about those people at that time they are looking very smart but now where they have gone this is the harsh reality of life
People forget they don't know what the next moment might bring!
Imperial Airways to India - A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata,the first city in India to welcome an aircraft.
Is it just me or one of the plane wing is kinda broken?
That time India was prosperous and Calcutta was the best place to live in india
Oh Bhai...India was prorsperous before the britishers controlled india...as soon as they controlled india the made the indian unpoverished...
@@mohammadsabah8619 hey before British India was under monarchy rule, indians even don't know what is democracy and secularism. Even there were no electricity and vehicles and no jobs, British made a the first progressive move and open India to the world.still now the Indian don't know how to build a smooth road, full of corruption.
And then Didi came 😛
@@praphuldoke8280 didi came and made it London which even the British couldn't
@@mohammadsabah8619 show me an evidence that India was prosperous before the British came.
Certainly the Wright Brothers were not the first to fly a plane. I came across a video in which an Indian woman flew a plane over the beach at Dadar Chowpatty or Girgaum/Juhu Chowpatty. But this was 5-8 years ago. I haven't come across that video again. Can anybody throw light on this!!??🙄🙏 25-12-2024
They were soo many birds in the sky then no radiation...know no birds at all...
britain might have occupied India or looted India....but the fact is...India wouldn't have been a country as it is today...courtesy india....and even after independence there aren't many original great projects that our ppl have built..most of the canals for farming and most the bridges they have built are still in use today....ours wouldn't have lasted so long...our indian system is deep rooted in corruption...no matter what...i feel India would have been another Hong Kong if British still ruled us...In a way they are better than our corrupt political system!!!
You said it! Many of our legal procedures, laws, rules, norms, etc are still there which they gave us, are unchanged or little changed, and we still follow them.
Sorry but India was doing well way before the British came...we were rich and had functioning societies... the British built all those things for their convenience... we were just a means to an end for them... the current political system has learnt a lot of lessons from them (not good ones)... as for corruption well..That's something that happens pretty much every where.. but even then for a country that remains in relative peace ...I think we are doing good... I see India becoming a great country soon..
I agree. The British gave us one of the largest rail network. Just see how much rail network we added in last 70year's.
@@rp3331 they didn't do it for us...they did it for their benefit...India was a means to an end for them...nothing else
@@miss42310 I know what you're trying to say and fully agree to that. But some people have inherent slave mentality in their DNAs and its hard to rewire that with truth. Sadly all you can do is let them be.😉
It's amazing , I never knew that in 1917 the planes were used for travelling to India.
Is there any one knows how long it used to take to get to India in this plane?
Approximately 7 days. As it had to land at short distances for refuelling and the speed of the plane was not more than 200 miles per hr. Actually this flight was an experiment and not a commercial flight.
Speed was closer to 100knots
Older people in this movie were born in late or middle of 1800s like me in 1900s
काश यह क्रेश हो जाता और 2-4 अंग्रेज निपट जाते 😁
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no refueling in between??
6:40 The kids may be alive take interview.
Not possible
It's been more than 100 year
Fascinating: the plane looks damaged on the right wing tip.......
They hit wing tip to tree ...watch 1:05...
I saw many birds flying around but !! 2021 today there's very rarely to see them with groups
Rahul sir and Sonia madam will Happy. Jai Hind
Even they people were not old but still holding stick in one hand... haha i think that was a fashion 😃😃😃
Yes, you are right 🤣🤣🤣
What are these hat called which most of men wearing. I want to buy one.
Indians previously not encouraged non renewable sources and easy life style , but britishers succeeded it
I wonder what is flight duration of such distance in those days?
I don't think that this plan can fly straight from UK to India